Winner of the 2014 Frans Habraken Best Paper Award announced

20 August 2015

The editors of Applied Surface Science are pleased to announce that Cedric Barroo (Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) has won the 2014 Frans Habraken Best Paper Award for his paper “Oxygen assisted reconstructions of rhodium and platinum nanocrystals and their effects on local catalytic activity of hydrogenation reactions” (Applied Surface Science 304 (2014), 2-10). The winner was selected from close to 40 nominees.

The jury (consisting of the editors of the journal) commented that the paper describes the use of a variety of specific surface techniques, looks innovative and is very readable.

The Frans Habraken Best Paper Award was initiated in memory of Professor Frans Habraken, who was Editor of Applied Surface Science, from 1998 to 2011. The award is presented to the first author, aged 30 or younger, of the best paper published in the journal in the year 2014. The award consists of a certificate and EUR 1,000.

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